Mike Hardman
Chicago Blackhawks Left Wing
Twenty-one games, two points, and a 20.8 mph top speed from an undrafted 6-2 winger.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | CHI | 8 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 20.0 | 10:59 |
| 2021-22 | CHI | 21 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -6 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0.0 | 9:18 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 29 | 1 | 4 | 5 | -6 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 5.9 | 9:46 |
This Season So Far
The 2022-23 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.
Last Season
0 goals and 2 assists in 21 games — 2 points at 9:18 a night, minus-6, with 11 penalty minutes.
Twenty-one games at nine minutes a night, and the on-ice record is too thin for this book to print a five-on-five share for him at all.
Twelve shots in 21 games. That is the whole of the offensive record.
The Finesse Game
Nothing here measures. Twelve attempts and no goals, and five points in 29 career NHL games.
He scored at Boston College and has not scored here, and 29 games is not enough to say which of those is the truth about him.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 205. 20.8 mph is a bottom-of-the-league top speed and 1.57 miles a game is the workload of a thirteenth forward.
35.9 per cent of his even-strength time was spent in the offensive zone, the lowest share on this roster. Nine minutes a night, all of it starting in his own end.
The Intangibles
Undrafted out of Boston College, and 29 NHL games at 23.
Chicago has traded four of its top six forwards and is going to hand games to whoever is in Rockford. He is one of the men that describes, and the season is his chance to stop being one.
What kind of player
The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.
- ordinaryraised, and called ordinary
Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.
“Undrafted out of Boston College, and 29 NHL games at 23.”
The numbers underneath
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2021-22 · 21 games
- Top speed
- 20.8 mph
- 9th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.71 a game
- Distance
- 1.57 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 80.6 mph
- 23rd pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.0
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.1
A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.
Usual linemates
2021-22 · 190 minutes at five-on-five
Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.
Where he shoots from
goal on goal missed
18 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 0 of them goals. 39% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 17% from beyond forty.